Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1964 [PAGE 583]

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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CONTRACTS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF VETERINARY MEDICINE RESEARCH ANNEX ADDITION (11) The Director of the Physical Plant and the Vice-President and Comptroller recommend award of the following contracts for construction of an addition to the Veterinary Medicine Research Annex, the award in each case to the lowest bidder: General — Pathman Construction Co., Chicago $194 281 Base bid $186 981 Additive alternate for revisions on the first floor 2 700 Additive alternate for assignment of other contracts 4 600 Laboratory Furniture — Laboratory Furniture Company, Inc., Mineola, New York 19 772 Base bid $ 18 171 Additive alternate for revisions in installation in Room 6a. 1 481 Additive alternate for installation of aluminum distilled water valves 120 Dumbwaiter — Otis Elevator Company, Chicago 5 913 Electrical — G. L. Wilskey, an individual doing business as Downtown Electric, Urbana 19 505 Base bid $ 19 025 Additive alternate for revisions in the first floor 320 Additive alternate for work on monorail system 110 Additive alternate for installation of electrical outlets for laboratory furniture in Room 6a 50 Plumbing — Healy Plumbing and Heating Company, St. Paul, Minnesota 21 009 Base bid $ 17 900 Additive alternate for revisions in the first floor 561 Additive alternate for distilled water still 1 249 Additive alternate for distilled water piping to laboratory furniture on the second floor 876 Additive alternate for connection of laboratory service fixtures in the additional laboratory furniture in Room 6a 287 Additive alternate for distilled water piping to Room 6 a . . . 136 Heating, Piping, and Refrigeration — R. H. Bishop Company, Champaign 44 453 Base bid $ 43 700 Additive alternate for installation of distilled water s t i l l . . . 753 Ventilating and Sheet Metal Work — Petry Roofing and Sheet Metal Company, Champaign 27 237 Total $332 170 It is also recommended that all contracts other than the general contract be assigned to the contractor for general work, making the total of his contract $332,170, and it is further recommended that an agreement be entered into with Pathman Construction Co., Chicago, for the assignment of these other contracts for $4,600, which amount is included in the contract price, being the amount bid by that Company for service charge for supervision of other contracts assigned to the general contractor. Funds are available from a grant to the University from the National Institutes of Health, state capital appropriations to the University for 1961-63 from the Universities Building Fund, which have been released, and from indirect costs on government contracts for research related to this project. Submitted herewith is a report from the Physical Plant Department, including a summary of bids received, a copy of which is being filed with the Secretary of the Board. I concur.

On motion of Mr. Swain, these contracts were awarded, as recommended, by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Clement, Mr. Dilliard, Mr. Johnston, Mr. Pogue, Mr. Swain, Mrs. Watkins, Mr. Williamson; no, none; absent, Mr. Hughes, Mr. Kerner, Mr. Page.